From Canada-
On October 2, 2019, the congregants and friends of St.
John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Fruitvale, B.C., took a last look
at the building that had served them well over the years. They fell in
line behind Lynne McNaughton, bishop of the diocese of Kootenay; dressed
in her cope and mitre, crosier in hand, McNaughton led the procession
out of the church, and into a motorhome that was waiting outside.
“It was the symbolism that we were on the move, and had a
home worshipping,” says the Rev. Elizabeth Lewis, St. John’s deacon.
“There’s a lovely picture of her sitting in the driver’s seat,” she
adds.
The October service was a deconsecration of the building
that had housed the church until July of this year, after the United
Church of Canada congregation that co-owned the building decided to
close their church and wanted to sell the property, Lewis says. Without
full ownership of the building, St. John’s had to sell.
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